拍品 4236
4236
A LONGQUAN CELADON 'TWIN FISH' DISH
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A LONGQUAN CELADON 'TWIN FISH' DISH

YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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A LONGQUAN CELADON 'TWIN FISH' DISH
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The dish is sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides rising to an everted rim. The interior is decorated in relief with a pair of scaly fish swimming in opposite directions, and the exterior is moulded with lotus petals radiating upward from the foot. It is covered overall in a glaze of sea-green tone except for the foot rim which is covered in a brown wash.
11 3/8 in. (29 cm.) diam., box

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For a discussion on this 'twin-fish' motif as an auspicious symbol of harmonious marriage and good fortune, see S. Pierson, Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics, London, 2001, p. 19, where a Longquan dish of this type from the Percival David Foundation is illustrated, op. cit., no. 11. Other similar Longquan moulded fish dishes were recovered from the cargo of a trading vessel that sank off the coast of Sinan, Korea, in the 1320s, see Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan, Seoul, 1985, pl. 1, no. 13a, b.